Thats why the extradition process will take a while as the specifics of that will be deliberated upon now in a court under impartial judge (Feb 6th is when the next hearing takes place I believe). Basically how specific does a law of one have to be to not come under "crime in both" coverage....there is no generic "violating sanction crime" remember...it is specified into many different crimes (like misrepresenting nature of business w.r.t hostile country embargo etc)...so the actual crime does not need to be (given case was clearly NOT dismissed in 1st hearing) even word for word carbon copy Iran-based (given embargoes and misrepresentation with intent for nature of business to get around that embargo can definitely be argued to be a crime in Canada under Canadian law...Canada has and does participate in embargoes...including ongoing ones with Iran, there is volume of precedent on it)
You take the reaction of shock etc too much....Canada of course would have known this is a potential, even likely outcome (dependent on how China wants to escalate and has few recourse to make any true high level example out of Canada, so they reach for low ones).
Canada is not going to put its law "on hold/ignore/selectivity" for any other country (that is the whole point of rule of law)....if they want to change what they do because of perceived "politics", thats on them....not us (and we let every country judge them and us as they want to in the end). We aren't going to crush student protesters with tanks anytime soon either....can't be said to have never happened with them lot, that are speaking about "credibility" of their law and crying foul of ours... (sounds pretty stale given the great proven track record of bringing those perpetrators to account and hearing the evidence fairly....what do you do when the govt IS the perpetrator?...and has no peaceful civilian political challenge?). So yeah everyone can just judge away as they see fit to in the end. Sometimes less said the better.
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